A band named after the village whose ironworks closed under it has called its fourth record The Price of Steel, and Horndal will release it on 26 February through Svart Records.
The album runs ten songs: "Rust to Dust", "Final Shift", "Drowned in Tar", "Skinripper", "Poisonous Water", "Friends in Fire", "Engulfed in Steel", "Dog House", "The Human Factor" and "Beneath the Weight". "Skinripper" came out as a single earlier this year.
Horndal formed in 2016 and are based in Stockholm, though the name is their home village in Dalarna: horn valley, and the subject of most of what they write, which Metal Archives files under urban decay. The line-up includes bassist Daniel Ekeroth, who has played in Martyrdöd, Tyrant and Iron Lamb and was in Insision and Usurpress, and drummer Pontus Levahn.
Their previous albums are Remains in 2019, Lake Drinker in 2021 and Head Hammer Man in 2024, with the EPs Horndal in 2017 and Be Evil in 2022. The video above is for "Blacklisted", from the earlier run on Prosthetic Records.